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Courtesans and Fishcakes : The Consuming Passions of Classical Athens (Text Only), EPUB eBook

Courtesans and Fishcakes : The Consuming Passions of Classical Athens (Text Only) EPUB

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A brilliantly entertaining and innovative history of the ancient Athenians' consuming passions for food, wine and sex.Sex, shopping and fish-madness, Athenian style.This fascinating book reveals that the ancient Athenians were supreme hedonists.

Their society was driven by an insatiable lust for culinary delights - especially fish - fine wine and pleasures of the flesh.

Indeed, great fortunes were squandered and politicians' careers ruined through ritual drinking at the symposium, or the wooing of highly-coveted, costly prostitutes.James Davidson brings an incisive eye and an urbane wit to this refreshingly accessible and different history of the people who invented Europe, democracy and art.

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